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AFjustice.com summarizes the class action lawsuit against Abercrombie and Fitch for alleged racial, ethnic and gender discrimination against employees and job applicants. It is sponsored by the national plaintiffs' law firm of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP. Joining Lieff Cabraser as co-counsel are MALDEF, APALC and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. The case received widespread media coverage.

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Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, is a seventy-plus attorney law firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, Nashville, and Seattle. We are a law firm that represents only plaintiffs. For over forty years, our trial lawyers have successfully represented plaintiffs in individual, class and group cases in the fields of personal injury and mass torts, securities fraud, employment discrimination and unlawful employment practices, product defect, antitrust, consumer protection, aviation, environmental and toxic exposure, and human rights.

Our attorneys enjoy a national reputation for professional integrity and the successful prosecution of our clients’ claims. We possess sophisticated legal skills and the financial resources necessary to handle large, complex cases, and to take on some of the world’s largest corporations. For the last fourteen years, we have been ranked as one of the top plaintiffs’ law firms in the United States by the National Law Journal.

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You have the right to privacy in your dealings with your lawyer and to have your secrets and confidences preserved to the extent permitted by law.

You are entitled to have your attorney conduct himself or herself ethically in accordance with the Code of Professional Responsibility.

You may not be refused representation on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin or disability.

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This website is not intended for the purpose of soliciting any prospective clients residing in the State of Mississippi for the commencement of any civil action in the State of Mississippi filed solely by Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP. If Lieff Cabraser were to file a civil lawsuit in the State of Mississippi, the firm would do so in association with a member of the Mississippi Bar who would serve as co-counsel in the litigation.